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## Chapter Thirty-Three
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The exhausted, hungry, and thirsty Vasudeva, having spent the night in the cowherd's village, rose in the morning and set out towards the south. He saw a city, Giritarat, surrounded by a thorny rampart, and, delighted, entered it. The city was filled with distinguished people, and the sound of Vedic chanting filled all directions. Curious, Vasudeva asked someone, "Has a great gift been given to the Brahmanas here? Why have all the Vedic scholars of the earth gathered here?"
The man replied, "There lives here a Brahmana named Vasudeva, who has a daughter named Somashri, beautiful as the moon, and skilled in the arts and the Vedas."
"The astrologers have said that whoever wins her in a debate on the Vedas will be her husband. Therefore, all the Vedic people have gathered here."
"This extremely beautiful girl, with her heavy hips and breasts, and slender waist, is a burden for which we do not know who will be fortunate enough to bear."
Hearing these words, the girl, whose voice was as sweet as the sound of a swan, was filled with anxiety, just as the sound of a swan's cry fills the heart of a swan with anxiety.
Vasudeva, approaching the teacher Brahmadutta, declared his lineage and requested, "Please teach me the Vedas."
The teacher replied, "Do you wish to learn the Ashan Vedas, which reveal Dharma, or the Anarsh Vedas?"
"How can there be two Vedas?" asked Vasudeva.
The teacher, delighted and truthful, replied, "At the beginning of the Kalpa, when the Kalpa trees perished, those who taught the six actions (Ashi, Mashi, etc.) to the people who had taken refuge in them, and who, based on their previous knowledge, divided them into the three varnas (Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra), were the ones who ruled.
The king who ruled over the earth, whose wife was adorned with a silver mountain necklace, was the one who had the power to control the Himalayas and the Vindhyas.